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Mac models were also boosted to work with virtual reality gear, a move by Apple into technology that Facebook has embraced with its Oculus unit.

Apple will later this year release a "HomePod" music-centric smart home speaker, challenging a market now dominated by Amazon and Google in its latest move to weave deeper into people's lives.

Apple's new speaker is called HomePod (not to be confused with the third-party HomePod "wireless stereo" in-home streaming device a third-party company tried selling back in 2004), and will ship in December of this year.

If Spotify is your preferred music service for example, you can't use voice commands. They include a new visual interface for Siri queries, the option of a male voice, and more.

An iPad Pro sized at 10.5-inches, four new MacBooks and three iMacs were among the announcements at the event, which traditionally focuses on annual software releases for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. The HomePod is powered by Apple's A8 chip and will be available from December in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the USA, which will be getting the initial batch of speakers in White and Space Grey at $349 (roughly Rs. 22,500). It wakes to "Hey, Siri" and will attempt to answer basic questions and control other devices in addition to playing tunes via Apple Music. The speaker will also maintain an emphasis on privacy by only sending voice data to the cloud in response to specific requests initiated with "Hey Siri", which the speaker will listen for with local voice recognition. "It definitely puts a dent into Google Home".

Apple concluded its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday with a sneak peek of an all-new product: The HomePod. In the future, both AirPods and HomePod will benefit from additional integrations with Siri - but nobody buys AirPods, a MacBook or an iPhone for Siri. Apple also said the HomePod encrypts all your communication. So even though Apple TV will soon deliver Amazon content, it can't show it the way other devices can.

It starts shipping later this year in the USA, United Kingdom and Australia.

Amazon just unveiled a version of Echo with a camera, touch-screen display and video-calling capabilities. Now I have zero problems saying that the HomePod sounds way better than an Echo, but it's still not a direct comparison. Amazon also has the Echo Dot, a budget version of the Echo that starts at $49.99. Google delivered an Android Auto feature for smartphones previous year.

Some industry insiders, however, note that Apple will be under more pressure to improve the computing smarts of its Siri software in the face of offerings from rivals Google and Amazon.

This has been one major area in consumer electronics lacking Apple's footprint.

That leaves Apple. Although it was the first smartphone maker to come out with a digital assistant when Siri debuted in 2011, it hasn't had a stand-alone assistant.

Apple is going product first and platform second for a reason.

He claimed this year's WWDC is the largest of the kind for the technology company. And it knows that, for all its sci-fi promise, the smart speaker today is good mostly for one thing: playing audio on command.

The lack of a breakthrough device has periodically raised concerns that Apple has become too dependent on the iPhone and supported the theory that the company lost its knack for innovation when its co-founder Steve Jobs died of cancer in 2011.

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Trump returned to Washington on Saturday from a nine-day foreign trip to Saudi Arabia , Israel , Vatican City, Brussels and Italy. He said he has not asked Trump whether the president believes human activity is contributing to climate change .

Some of these accounts can be created by real people and some can be created by computers - the last types are known as 'bots'. Just over a year ago he had just 7.6 million followers, but only 8% were fake, according to FiveThirtyEight .

If the poll is accurate and the swing were uniform across the country, the Tories would be 17 seats short of an overall majority. YouGov's election model was based on voting intention figures which gave May a lead of just 3 percentage points, YouGov said.

It even raked in less money than the weeks-old Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 which added $25.1 million to its treasure chest. It has now surpassed the domestic, foreign, and worldwide totals of the original, which topped out at $773.3 million in 2014.

This is not the first time McCain has been vocal about the Trump administration's relationship with Russian Federation . The FBI and several congressional committees are now investigating contacts between Trump aides and Russian officials.

During a speech Monday in Berlin , Merkel did not specifically mention Trump but quoted a 1963 speech by former President John F. Merkel also emphasized the continued need for friendly relations with the USA and others.

Shourav Dasari , a past victor of both minor-league bees, was described as the consensus favorite as the ESPN broadcast began. It had added a tiebreaker test, but it did not come into play. "It motivates me", she said.

Canada, the European Union and China have said they will honour their commitments to the pact if the United States withdraws. Trump thinks that the climate change was something invented by the Chinese to stop USA companies from making a lot of money.

As 1010 WINS' Roger Stern reports, the topic weighed heavily on the minds of the people at New York City's march at Foley Square . The rallying in Washington on the National Mall is being held within blocks of a pro-Trump rally outside of the White House.

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